What is Sirens of Smoke
Sirens of Smoke is a mythical world built to be felt before it’s understood.
Created by Kim Rivera, a designer and creative director who brings untamed sirens to life through handmade couture garments and immersive storytelling, currently staged as narrated catwalks and guided whisky tastings, each siren born from the elements of peated whisky.
The project rejects the mundane: built for collectors, artists, and the culturally curious, drawn to mystery before they need it explained.
Chapter One
Where mist clings to the moorlands and smoke drifts slowly across the sea, they linger: the Sirens of Smoke. Older than the first fire that blackened stone, they dwell in the breath of peat, the warmth of copper stills, the hush of warehouse stone.
They do not lure with their voice, but with scent, salted, smoky, impossible to forget. Not flesh and form, but forces of nature, bound to the elements they protect: the coastal air, the untamed peat, the smoke that lingers in the living grain, the liquid gold that matures deep within noble oak.
To follow a siren is to surrender to the transformation. So inhale deeply, and let yourself be seduced.
The six sirens of Chapter One
Feamainn
[femɪɴʲ]
Seaweed
Feamainn
[femɪɴʲ]
Seaweed
Trench coat | 100% natural latex
Feamainn
[femɪɴʲ]
Seaweed
She is the guardian of the coasts and the breath of the sea. Shrouded in a sheer latex trench, she blends into the coastline, its slick surface mimicking the sheen of seaweed washed ashore.
Eòrna
[jɔːʴɴə]
Barley
Eòrna
[jɔːʴɴə]
Barley
Hand-embroidered mesh dress | Cotton mesh weave, barley (spray-painted and resin coated)
Eòrna
[jɔːʴɴə]
Barley
She is the keeper of the grain, the one who safeguards the cereal plant long before it is transformed. Her cotton mesh gown is both armour and elegance.
Mearalas
[mɛrələs]
Brine
Mearalas
[mɛrələs]
Brine
Hand-pleated and embroidered satin dress | Pure silk satin, acrylic pearls, mesh
Mearalas
[mɛrələs]
Brine
From hillside springs to coastal inlets, she follows the water's course. Her name speaks of brine, and on her salt-kissed skin she wears pure silk satin, soft and lucid, trailing behind her like the sea's own fabric.
Mòine
[mɔːɴʲə]
Peat
Mòine
[mɔːɴʲə]
Peat
Pleated bodysuit | Suedette
Skirt | Metal mesh, pure silk chiffon
Mòine
[mɔːɴʲə]
Peat
Cloaked in pleated suedette that folds like stacks of unburnt peat, she moves with heat pulsing beneath her surface. Her presence radiates like kindling about to catch.
Smùd
[smuːd]
Smoke
Smùd
[smuːd]
Smoke
Layered dress | 100% pure silk chiffon
Smùd
[smuːd]
Smoke
The mistress of smoke, elusive, seductive, impossible to capture. She is the last breath of fire, layered and weightless, moving without any sound.
Darach Loisgte
[darəx ɫɔʃdʲə]
Charred Oak
Darach Loisgte
[darəx ɫɔʃdʲə]
Charred Oak
Hand-stitched asymmetric dress | Crackled lambskin leather
Bandeau top | Pure silk chiffon, tulle
Darach Loisgte
[darəx ɫɔʃdʲə]
Charred Oak
She is the protector of casks and realms at the heart of charring. A violent crackling of wood opens its deepest layers, the one that gives the spirit its closing voice.
The Show · Edinburgh, May 2025
More than a collection
Chapter One was never only garments. On a rooftop above Edinburgh, the sirens were revealed on a candlelit catwalk and led an intimate audience through a guided tasting, couture, narrative, and peated whisky, bound into a single evening.
The Maker
Kim Rivera
Kim Rivera has never been able to stay still. She builds imagined worlds and rarely stops, drawn always to the wilder, darker end of beauty, in fashion and in spirit alike.
A designer and creative director, she conceives, makes, and stages every siren herself. Sirens of Smoke is where all her creative obsessions collide: a refusal to make anything ordinary, and a hedonist’s pull toward taste, spirit, and sensation. Not fashion, not a tasting, but something rarer, made whole by a single hand.
This is not a destination. It is an appetite that cannot be satisfied, followed wherever it leads.
In Creation
Chapter Two
Something darker is already taking shape. More daring, more dangerous, in design, in story, and in material. It is being made now. What it becomes is still being written.
Follow the Lure
Let the sirens draw you in
Each chapter, revealed slowly. The making, the thinking, the world as it takes shape. Once you’ve entered, it doesn’t quite let you leave.